Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: Regular alcohol misuse enforcement campaigns led by the Home Office, in partnership with local trading standards departments, have targeted irresponsible retailers who sell alcohol to under-18s. They have demonstrated that enforcement can be effective. The Government also work with the alcohol industry to encourage it to fulfil its responsibilities and to carry out commitments not to sell alcohol to under-18s in industry codes of practice.
	Protecting young people from alcohol misuse and educating children and their parents about the harms that may cause will be significant issues in the review of the Government's alcohol strategy during 2007.

Lord Lofthouse of Pontefract: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Whether the Department for Trade and Industry and its solicitors, Nabarro Nathanson, have lodged any formal complaints with the Law Society against solicitors in the British Coal Respiratory Disease Litigation since 1 January 2004; if so, what is the name of each such solicitor; when each complaint was made; what was the nature of the complaint; and what was the outcome of each complaint.

Lord Lofthouse of Pontefract: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Whether they have made an assessment of the reason why the Solicitors Regulation Authority remains unable to state the number of cases in the British Coal Litigation sold to solicitors by either claims farmers or trade unions.

Lord Lofthouse of Pontefract: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Whether they have made an assessment of the reasons why neither the Solicitors Regulation Authority nor its predecessors have conducted an audit to establish the number of solicitors operating in the British Coal Litigation with financial ties to claims farmers or trade unions; and whether such an audit is now necessary for consumer protection.

Lord Lofthouse of Pontefract: asked Her Majesty's Government:
	Whether they will respond to requests made of the Department for Trade and Industry by the Board of the Legal Complaints Service seeking disclosure of contact details in respect of past claimants in the British Coal Vibration White Finger Litigation, British Coal Respiratory Disease Litigation and British Coal Industrial Disease Litigation; or whether they will instruct the department's claims handlers, Capita, to relay communications from the Law Society to such claimants.

Baroness Andrews: My officials sent all English planning authorities a copy of the Written Ministerial Statement of 8 June 2006 on planning policy statement 22 (PPS22), which encouraged them to take account fully of the positive approach to renewables that it sets out. In doing so they emphasised that the Government expected authorities that had not yet taken steps to include such policies in their plans to do so at the next available opportunity. Government offices are active in their regions in encouraging regional planning bodies and planning authorities to bring forward regional spatial strategies and local development documents in line with national policies.
	All inspectors who will examine development plan documents have had the Statement drawn to their attention and been made aware of the importance placed by government on the use of renewable energy. An inspector will check that the planning authority has prepared a development plan document legally and test whether it is sound. In doing so, the inspector will consider whether the document is consistent with national planning policy. After the examination, the inspector will produce a report, with recommendations that will be binding on the authority. Where necessary, the report will set out precise recommendations on how the document must be changed.
	We have recently consulted on a draft planning policy statement (PPS), Planning and Climate Change, which sets out our proposals on how planning should contribute to reducing emissions and stabilising climate change. Planning is expected to make a full contribution to delivering the Government's Climate Change Programme and energy policies. That includes giving greater emphasis to local renewable sources for supplying the energy needs of new developments. At the local level, development plan documents are expected to set policies on the provision of low-carbon and renewable sources of energy to provide the platform necessary for securing and complementing the increasingly high levels of energy and carbon performance required by building regulations. This provision is expected to be "significant" to reflect the full potential of local opportunities consistent with securing the new development needed in communities.

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: Finished in-year admission episodes for 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05 and 2005-06 are shown in tables, which have been placed in the Library.
	To minimise the risk of individual patients being identified, figures of five or less need to be suppressed where the data are geographically specific. Figures have been provided by strategic health authority of residence, as providing details at a lower organisational level would have involved heavy suppression of data.
	The figures are for admission episodes where malnutrition was recorded as either a primary or secondary diagnosis.

Lord Adonis: From Department for Education and Skills analysis of Learning and Skills Council (LSC) data, spend on asylum-seeker English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) courses for learners aged 19-plus was £20.2 million in 2004-05, the last year for which data are available. The changes announced in October to ESOL funding are not intended to result in savings but to reprioritise existing provision. The adult learning budget is expected to increase next year by approximately 7 per cent.
	We will shortly publish the results of the race equality impact assessment and any changes to our proposals that Ministers will take as a result.

Lord Drayson: Any hiring or removal of Iraqi police officers from the MND(SE) region is performed centrally by the Ministry of Interior in Baghdad. The Government of Iraq provide reports on progress in the Iraqi Police Service through various channels rather than directly, on a Government-to-Government basis. Latest reports suggest that nationally several thousand police have been removed over the past six months.
	Our strategy to remove any police officers with known militia links in southern Iraq was highlighted during the operation to disband the corrupt Serious Crime Unit (SCU) in Basra on Christmas Day 2006. A new unit has now been established to carry out a similar special investigation role as the SCU and its members are fully screened and closely supervised to ensure their trustworthiness.